Posted on 10/13/2004 12:44:17 AM PDT by struwwelpeter
The holiday was cancelled here. Now October 6th is Remembrance Day. At Beslan's school no. 1, there were 62 teachers and other school workers among the hostages. Twenty-two perished.
Because of the tragedy, Beslan schools cancelled Teacher's Day. Instead, at 11 AM on October 6th, the Beslan cultural center observed a 'Day of Remembrance' for the teachers who died in the storming of school number one. A small delegation came, headed by Northern Ossetia's education minister, Alina Levitskaya, and the new chairman of the government. Relatives of the deceased teachers came. The president of Ossetia did not come, but sent 'feasible pecuniary aid' for their funerals.
On Remembrance Day, the relatives were told that the president of the republic had introduced a bill to decorate all the deceased teachers with an official award, but precisely what type was not specified.
Education Minister Alina Levitskaya read the order for each teacher. She read and cried.
Zlata Sergeyevna Azieyeva. The moment the battle began, she saved children with no regard for her own life. Killed while performing her professional duty.
Al'bina Viktorovna Alikova. From the first day she helped children as they were being moved into the gymnasium, calming them down, cheering them up, distracting them from terrible thoughts. After the first explosion, Al'bina personally saved 20 children, evacuating them from a window in the gym. When the fire began, she ran barefoot along the burning embers and was heading for the exit when someone called for help. She was never seen again. Al'bina's burnt body was identified 10 days later.
Darima Batuyevna Alikova. During the terror act she supported the children, giving them aid in spite of the terrorists' orders, and was beaten for this. More than once, according to the hostages, the terrorists threatened to kill her. Darima's burned remains were identified five days later. On her body were 8 bullet wounds.
Svetlana Akhmedovna Balikoyeva. Supply clerk for the first school. They could not identify her for a long time. She proved to be literally blown to bits.
Galina Khadzhiyevna Batayeva. Until the last minutes of her life she kept her courage and composure, gathering her little schoolchildren around her. During the battle she saved children.
Zarema Gavrilovna Bekmurzova. Saved children with no concern for her own life. Perished after succeeding in saving a large number of children who were located next to her.
Alena Aksarbekovna Dzutseva. In the face of death she performed her professional duty. Until the very last minute she was rescuing children.
Ivan Konstantinovich Kanidi. Physical education teacher, 74 years old, veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Until the last minute, he was attempting to save children who looked to him for hope. He shielded them with his body. The guerillas had offered to let him leave the school, but he asked that children be released in his place, and remained in the school. He rendered two explosive devices harmless. After the explosions he tried to seize a machinegun from a guerilla and was shot to death.
Svetlana Kantemirovna Kantemirova. Teacher of the English language. Died while shielding children with her body.
Emma Khasanovna Karyayeva. Elementary class teacher. Helped children cope with fear. Lost her own daughter in this tragedy while saving other children. Emma was last seen by a friend, English teacher Larisa Sergeevna Tedeyeva, who was dragging her to the exit. Emma could no longer speak, and blood was gushing from a wound on her neck. Emma brought her right hand to her lips and kissed her wedding ring. Later, she wrote in blood on the floor: 'I love you. Karina.' In this manner she did bid her husband and daughter farewell.
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Mikhailov. Labor teacher. Until the last minute he courageously performed his duty as a teacher, a man, and a protector.
Nadezhda Ivanovna Nazarova. Biology teacher. Sacrificed herself to save children. Died will performing her dury as a teacher. She died together with her daughter and two grandchildren.
Natal'ya Aleksandrovna Rudenok. Teacher of art and drawing. Saved children, died while performing her duty as a teacher.
Ol'ga Nikolayevna Soskiyeva. Elementary class teacher. Tried to protect children from the guerillas' aggression and calm them down. Took upon herself the care of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, veteran of labor and retired history teacher Zaurbek Kharitonovich Gasiyev, who traditionally came to the school on the first day of class. She literally carried the old man from the gym to the restroom, because he had difficulty moving. Gasiyev survived. When the explosion boomed out, Ol'ga Nikolayevna did not concern herself with saving herself or her own daughter. She pushed children to safety though windows.
Al'bina Vladimirovna Tuskayeva. Supported children, adults, and parents. Saved her students, lost her son.
Irina Zakharovna Khanayeva. A teacher worthy of the Russian Federation. Elementary education teacher, seventy-four years old. In the most difficult situation, though suffering from thrombophlebitis, she massed her little students about her and saved her entire class. During the battle, Irina Zakharovna was wounded by a burst of automatic weapons fire to her legs, but she stood up on her knees so that the children could climb her back and jump from the window. Died a true teacher.
Taisiya Kaurbekovna Khetagurova. Kept her courage. Saved many of her students, and died.
Roza Timofeyevna Cherdzhiyeva. Until the last minute she remained a teacher. She saved her students and showed rare courage. Remained a teacher of teachers. On the last surviving blackboard in the school her rescued students wrote: 'Roza Timofeyevna! We will never forget you'.
Tarkan Gabuliyevich Sabanov. Ninty years old, veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Guerillas offered to let him leave the school, but he refused and said: 'I started my life here, and I will end it here!' Died a true teacher and front-line soldier.
Ivan Il'ich Karlov. Worked for many years in the school boiler room. Seventy-two years old. Hid children and a teacher in the boiler room, saving the lives of 30 people. Shot by the guerillas.
In the enumeration of those killed and posthumously decorated, for some reason the following names did not appear: Alla Teymurazovna Andiyeva, who led a beginning modeling class, and laboratory assistant Rita Mukhtarovna Nogayeva.
Elena Milashina, our special correspondent in Beslan
We would like to thank our colleagues from the Beslan newspaper 'Life on the Right Bank' for their help in preparing this material.
Russian, Ossetian, or Greek, anyone would be proud to claim this hero as their own.
Konev, Zukov, and most other Russian just sent the troops ahead reguardless of obsitcals, Stalin wouldn't shoot you for a failed attack provided most of your troops got killed.
Heinricci, for one, recognozed this and pulled his troops back before an attack and was never broken through. The Russians suffered 30 million dead, the Germans 2 Million KIA and 4 million WIA, somrthing wrong with these stats.
...and their undying love:
Al'bina Viktorovna Alikova. From the first day she helped children as they were being moved into the gymnasium, calming them down, cheering them up, distracting them from terrible thoughts. After the first explosion, Al'bina personally saved 20 children, evacuating them from a window in the gym. When the fire began, she ran barefoot along the burning embers and was heading for the exit when someone called for help. She was never seen again. Al'bina's burnt body was identified 10 days later.
Emma Khasanovna Karyayeva. Elementary class teacher. Helped children cope with fear. Lost her own daughter in this tragedy while saving other children. Emma was last seen by a friend, English teacher Larisa Sergeevna Tedeyeva, who was dragging her to the exit. Emma could no longer speak, and blood was gushing from a wound on her neck. Emma brought her right hand to her lips and kissed her wedding ring. Later, she wrote in blood on the floor: 'I love you. Karina.' In this manner she bid her husband and daughter farewell.
Soviet Generals wound up in penal battalions for wasting their troops, after 1943. Before 1943 there was desperation and anything went to slow the Germans. After that things changed rapidly. Major training exercise were conducted before all offensives. Before the Vestul Offensive, there was 4 months of training. Once the break through was complete, the Soviet Army covered on average 50-60 km per day to the Oder.
Artillery was a massive portion of the Soviet Army. Concentrated, intensive barrages were used to punch holes through defenses and obstacles directly along the paths of attack, while sheets of moving steel rain came down deep into the enemy rear to muck up any rapid reaction forces or troop/supply concentrations.
The Russians suffered 30 million dead, the Germans 2 Million KIA and 4 million WIA, somrthing wrong with these stats.
First the true stats of 30 million is 22 million civilians and 8 million soldiers. Of those, 1.5 million died in captivity in 1941, 1942. The Germans lost 6 million soldiers on the Western Front. 100,000 were lost in Stalingrad alone and another 250,000 captured, of which all but some 10,000 perished. So in one operation, the Germans lost 350,000 men. Your 2 million killed statistic doesn't stand up. In Konigsburg, the Germans lost 45,000 troops, that's one city at the end of the war. They lost almost a million men in Bagaration where Army Group Center was liquidated, totally. By that time the Russian high command mastered mobile warfare better even then the Germans. Read some detailed books on this operation. They drove whole tank columns down railroad tracks and canal banks to get into the German rear and switched offensive pushes quickly.
Furthermore, the Germans lost some 6 million civilians. But then again, none of the allies were out to exterminate the Germans, unlike what the Germans had planned.
Well I guess it doesn't display cyrillic ascii.
Yeah sure, and the stupid Poles attacked tanks with the cavalry. Do not believe Nazi propaganda.
Of course, it always ends up looking like something Dan Rather put together ;-)
+Memory Eternal+
Thanks. The photos really bring it home. God bless President Putin -- may he fight them there so we don't have to fight them here.
Yiannis Kanidis died in his ancestoral Greek home land.
I am humbled to say that those of my professon have died martyrs to the cause of freedom and decency.
May their memories be eternal!
"Yiannis Kanidis died in his ancestoral Greek home land."
VERY good!
Zlata Sergeyevna Aziyeva, born 1970. Her husband saw Zlata on video clips as she was being carried from the school on a stretcher during the freeing of the hostages. Zlata has a pronounced collarbone on the right side, a result of birth trauma, and an appendectomy scar. Telephones: in Beslan 3-50-94, 5-66-19, in Estonia 8-10-372-55669711 & 8-10-372-3599731. E-mail: Njkool2003@mail.ru & tirot@mail.ru
How horrible!
You say she was being carried on a stretcher...what on earth are the authorities saying happened to her?
Amen.
Ahem. He died like an Orthodox Christian, serving God. My two cents. May God bless his soul!
Also missing is the teacher who was shot in the legs, yet kneeled in front of the window so that her students could climb to safety:
Irina Zakhorovna Khanayeva, born in 1930. All who know of Irina Zakhorovna's fate are asked to call in Beslan 3-18-48, 3-33-04.
Imagine being put into an ambulance and thinking it was over and you were on your way to the hospital and then finding out terrorists were driving.
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